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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9618874" data-attributes="member: 7006">It's not like Mike is the first person to do this though.&nbsp; All manner of designers who go on to design new games that aren't WotC D&amp;D invariably talks about the issues with the game while propping up their own games.&nbsp; Matt Colville denigrates a lot of D&amp;D now that he's making Draw Steel! that he didn't do when he first started his channel and making 5E content... Monte Cook went over all the problems he had towards the ultimate design of 3E when he left WotC and started Malhavoc Press.&nbsp; And I'm willing to bet that Chris Perkins will have all kinds of things to say about all the different editions of D&amp;D if/when he finally gets let go or leaves.&nbsp; After all... he was there through the design processes of 3E, 4E &amp; 5E-- all of which had substantially different foci and gameplay states-- so he (like all of us) probably didn't like all those versions equally and will have definite opinions on where each of those went wrong.At the end of the day... the same way we can't take current employees' (like Jeremy / Chris / et. al.) propping up of the current D&amp;D game with sunlight and flowers as anything more than proper promotion... we also can't take the denigration of the game by former employees who are making their own games as nothing more than promoting why their games will be better &amp; different than what is currently available (to those members of the gaming audience who care.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9618874, member: 7006"] It's not like Mike is the first person to do this though. All manner of designers who go on to design new games that aren't WotC D&D invariably talks about the issues with the game while propping up their own games. Matt Colville denigrates a lot of D&D now that he's making Draw Steel! that he didn't do when he first started his channel and making 5E content... Monte Cook went over all the problems he had towards the ultimate design of 3E when he left WotC and started Malhavoc Press. And I'm willing to bet that Chris Perkins will have all kinds of things to say about all the different editions of D&D if/when he finally gets let go or leaves. After all... he was there through the design processes of 3E, 4E & 5E-- all of which had substantially different foci and gameplay states-- so he (like all of us) probably didn't like all those versions equally and will have definite opinions on where each of those went wrong. At the end of the day... the same way we can't take current employees' (like Jeremy / Chris / et. al.) propping up of the current D&D game with sunlight and flowers as anything more than proper promotion... we also can't take the denigration of the game by former employees who are making their own games as nothing more than promoting why their games will be better & different than what is currently available (to those members of the gaming audience who care.) [/QUOTE]

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